vulgate
/ˈvʌlɡeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.
adj
In or pertaining to the common version or edition.
noun
The language of a people, especially the commoners.
verb
To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.
Example Sentences
- "The linguistic and socio-historical evidence herein examined suggests that the development of Coptic occurred in Ptolemaic Egypt, not only as a spoken vulgate in the Delta, but as a script produced through […]"
- "They might speak the local vulgate among themselves, and certainly among those they were trying to reach outside of the monastery, but read and spoke Latin for religious and official events."
- "English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79)."
- "Originally destined for settlements throughout India, these documents exhibit a wide range of rhetorical conventions and writing styles, combining in varying proportions the local idiom, the spoken vulgate, and the classical form of their writers' language."
- "Ordinary and vulgated sources will usually give all that is needed for a broad outline"
- "we have seen this in the way in which the affair of Capri has been everywhere vulgated, amid endless perversion and distortion"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Vulgāta.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: vulgātus
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Vulgate (canonical)
more vulgate (comparative)
most vulgate (superlative)
vulgates (plural)
vulgates (present, singular)
vulgating (participle, present)
vulgated (participle, past)
vulgated (past)